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Title: Legacy

Author: James H Schmitz

Release Date: May 17, 2007 [EBook #21510]

Language: English

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LEGACY

BY JAMES H. SCHMITZ

AUTHOR OF _THE WITCHES OF KARRES_

(ORIG. TITLE: A TALE OF TWO CLOCKS)

MEET TRIGGER ARGEE....

Half a block from the shopping center, a row of spacers on planet-leave
came rollicking cheerily toward her.... Trigger shifted toward the edge
of the sidewalk to let them pass. As the line swayed up on her left,
there was a shadowy settling of an aircar at the curb to her right.

With loud outcries of glad recognition and whoops of laughter, the line
swung in about her, close. Bodies crowded against her, a hand was
clapped over her mouth. Other hands held her arms. Her feet came off the
ground and she had a momentary awareness of being rushed expertly
forward.

There was a lurching twist as the aircar shot upward.

SHE'S ABOUT TO ENTER THE MYSTERY OF HER LIFE, IN

Legacy

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_Also by James H. Schmitz_

THE DEMON BREED
THE UNIVERSE AGAINST HER

ACE
SCIENCE
FICTION

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Legacy

JAMES H. SCHMITZ

SF

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LEGACY

Originally published as
A TALE OF TWO CLOCKS

An ACE Book

_Cover art by Bob Adragna_

First Ace printing: May 1979

Printed in U.S.A

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This book is dedicated affectionately
to my father

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1

It was the time of sunrise in Ceyce, the White City, placidly beautiful
capital of Maccadon, the University World of the Hub.

In the Colonial School's